{{short description|1924 film}} {{Use American English|date=September 2021}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = The Love Bandit | image = The Love Bandit (1924) - 2.jpg | caption = Still with Kenyon and Sutherland | director = Dell Henderson | producer = | writer = Lewis Allen Browne | based_on = {{basedon|''The Love Bandit''|Charles E. Blaney and Norman Houston}} | starring = {{ubl|Doris Kenyon|Victor Sutherland|Cecil Spooner}} | cinematography = | studio = Charles E. Blaney Productions | distributor = Vitagraph Company of America | released = {{film date|1924|01|06}} | runtime = 60 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) }} '''''The Love Bandit''''' is a 1924 American silent Western film with a Northwoods theme directed by Dell Henderson and starring Doris Kenyon, Victor Sutherland, and Cecil Spooner.<ref>[https://catalog.afi.com/Film/10396-THE-LOVEBANDIT?sid= The AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1893-1993: ''The Love Bandit'']</ref><ref>Goble p. 845</ref>
==Plot== As described in a film magazine review,<ref>{{cite journal |last=Pardy |first=George T. |author-link= |title=Box Office Reviews: ''The Love Bandit'' |journal=Exhibitors Trade Review |volume=15 |issue=7 |page=22 |publisher=Exhibitors Review Publishing Corporation |date=12 January 1924 |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibit00newy/page/n491/mode/1up |accessdate=9 June 2022}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> Amy Van Clayton is saved from drowning by Jim Blazes, whom she meets in a lumber camp. In New York City, Amy finds that her brother Fred Clayton is in danger of going to jail for robbing from his employer, who turns out to be Jim Blazes. Amy marries Jim to save her brother. Feeling that his wife does not love him, Jim returns to the lumber camp and is wounded in a gang fight. Amy is kidnapped and Jim gets into a vicious gun fight with Amy's kidnappers whom he later subdues. He saves Amy, who was tied to a buzzsaw table, from certain death. Now rescued, Amy finds happiness with her husband.
==Cast== {{Cast listing| * Doris Kenyon as Amy Van Clayton * Victor Sutherland as Jim Blazes * Cecil Spooner as Madge Dempsey * Lorenza Valentine as "Frenchie" Annie * Jules Cowles as Henri Baribeau * Gardner James as Frederick Van Clayton * Christian J. Frank as Buck Ramsdell * Dorothy Walters as Maggie McGuiry<ref name="Variety24">[http://archive.org/details/variety73-1924-02/page/n73 "The Love Bandit"], review, ''Variety'', February 14, 1924, p. 27. Internet Archive, San Francisco, California. Retrieved July 30, 2019.</ref> * Edward Boulden as "Snapper" Rollins * Walter Jones as John Lawson * Evelyn McCoy as Minor Role (uncredited) * Tom Wilson as Minor Role (uncredited) }}
== Censorship == Before ''The Love Bandit'' could be exhibited in Kansas, the Kansas Board of Review required the removal of the scene where a man is shot in "cold blood."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kansas Board of Review Movie Index - Kansas Historical Society |url=https://www.kansashistory.gov/statearchives/archives_board_of_reviews/search/film:love%20bandit/company:/star:/elimination:/begyr:/endyr:/submit:SEARCH |access-date=2025-10-21 |website=www.kansashistory.gov}}</ref>
==Preservation== An abridged version of ''The Love Bandit'' survives with a private collector.<ref>{{Cite web |date= |others= |title=The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Love Bandit |url=https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.7077/default.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231016124520/https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.7077/default.html |archive-date=2023-10-16 |access-date=2025-10-21 |website=memory.loc.gov}}</ref>
==See also== * ''Blue Jeans'' (1917) * ''The Ice Flood'' (1926)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Bibliography== * Goble, Alan (1999). ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter. {{ISBN|1-85739-229-9}}
==External links== {{commons category|The Love Bandit}} *{{IMDb title|0015084}} *[https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/the-love-bandit-poster-embracing-from-left-doris-kenyon-news-photo/1137266662 Lobby card] at www.gettyimages.com *[https://www.facebook.com/limingtonhistoricalsociety/photos/a.1575189309459819/2660349457610460/?type=3&eid=ARAFjTDpSKKDZsKb9VyJX-gaDe_S9aQqZGRCw1KF0FGL_03wqqcgteQTEztCEz1gAXsv2l24Dvl3z_Oc Lobby card] at The Limington Historical Society
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Love Bandit}} Category:1924 films Category:1924 Western (genre) films Category:Vitagraph Studios films Category:Films directed by Dell Henderson Category:American black-and-white films Category:American silent Western (genre) films Category:1924 English-language films Category:1924 American films Category:English-language Western (genre) films Category:American silent feature films